A website can be any metaphor that accurately describes what you built it to be.
My website is a mini space which I have designed into a home housing many rooms, its own garden, a playground and a workshop. These rooms can be explored by my visitors, passers-by and ultimately web surfers.
The first page you land on when you come on this website is my living room, I use it to welcome both old and new visitors, people who are just passing by and people who probably landed here by mistake.
I have rooms that hold my personal properties, abstractions, and some to house my visitors for a short while. These rooms are designed to offer ephemeral experiences. They are also flexible in the sense that, on your next visit here, something might have been moved around, redesigned or simply removed to create space or allow for something new.
In my garden, I cultivate and tend to seeds of ideas. Some of these seeds grow into plants rapidly while others take their time. They all eventually and gradually grow into plants that can stand on their own. Some of these plants flower and bear fruits, some don't.
My garden is a place I have designed to create serendipitous encounters between me and passers-by.
What is a house without a creative workshop?
In this space, I build things, I get creative, get my hands dirty, spend sleepless nights working on passion projects, side projects some of which are never finished. The few that gets completed make it out to the world for literally anyone to use. Some of them have bugs but that's fine, there's beauty in imperfections and this allows for frequent tending.
My playground and the recreational materials/equipments it contains provides my visitors with a place to explore freely. Play with the tools placed within, have fun and leave when you're done.
My website is a sea of endless possibilities built to grow with me.
References:
- How do you use the internet mindfully by The Creative Independent